Results 1-10 of about ... vastly different

Numbers rising, but different across datacenters

[dazzlindonna]

The number of results for searches seems to be rising greatly lately (doubling and even tripling in some cases) - and they differ vastly across datacenters. My guess is that this might be due to Google combining singular and plural word forms now, but was wondering if anyone else had any theories. I'm also thinking there might be a big update about to happen. What do you think?

[vitaplease]

We were hoping this was a sign for an imminent update 10 days ago as well:

Datacentres Almost All Different:
[webmasterworld.com...]

My guess is that this might be due to Google combining singular and plural word forms now, but was wondering if anyone else had any theories

They do not seem to solely take plural into consideration for singular searches:

www:

shoe: 3,880,000
shoes: 13,800,000.

www-va:

shoe: 23,200,000
shoes: 62,900,000

(I took "shoe", because most singular words outnumber their plural in result numbers )

maybe they are fooling around with variations of synonyms tilde "~shoe" results in the result numbers (foot, Nike, boot, feet, sneaker, footwear) or even Expanded Broad Matches (heel, Reebok..)

In any case something is happening or Google doesn't care about exact numbers and I doubt Al Bundy has been content spamming.

More probable might be: [webmasterworld.com...]
data center crawling/loading/indexing/duplicate (filter) and distribution issues?

[sidyadav]

hm... Looks like Google is really moving on... A good sign to us :)

Sid